Men's Baseball WBSC World Baseball Classic 2017

[heywoodu 15,141]

3 minutes ago, Gianlu33 said:

Israelian?  Only two players have israelian passaport... and it's the same for Italian team when only 8 italian was born in Italy

How do you know only two have an Israeli passport?  

 

Being born outside Israel of course doesn't mean they don't have an Israeli passport...I doubt it's even possible to play for Israel without having a passport. 

[Gianlu33 4,562]

1 minute ago, heywoodu said:

How do you know only two have an Israeli passport?  

 

Being born outside Israel of course doesn't mean they don't have an Israeli passport...I doubt it's even possible to play for Israel without having a passport. 

I readed it only an important italian sport site, if i'll find again the article i'll post it   They was "imported" like a lot of turkish in athletics  

Edited March 7, 2017 by Gianlu33

[intoronto 5,639]

Most of Israel's team is jewish players from the USA

[dcro 10,210]

Jewish people are basically granted Israeli passport (wherever they are born), so yeah, all of them should have valid passports.

[heywoodu 15,141]

33 minutes ago, intoronto said:

Most of Israel's team is jewish players from the USA

Well looking at the names that was rather obvious  I still think they all have a valid Israeli passport as well though.. no idea if it's even allowed to play without a passport of the nation you're representing in baseball  

 

Edited March 7, 2017 by heywoodu

[thepharoah 2,405]

Guys , anyone has a good LS link for current matches ? 

[phelps 7,675]

wow! what a night it's been...

I didn't really expect a "remuntada" like that when we got 9-5 down against MEX...

I feel sorry for our friend mrv86...I guess it's been a real shock...

 

on the other pitches, we've seen quite a good number of exciting games, despite being so early in the season...

in particular, the game between Cuba and Japan was a high class effort from both sides (maybe not by the pitchers...)...and also earlier today CUB vs AUS was a thrilling one, with the highly favourite Caribbeans that almost went out in round #1, with AUS coming just short in their comeback...

waiting for the US debut later tonight, yesterday it was also an impressive start by the reigning champions, the Dominican Republic...it won't be easy to stop them also in this year's tournament...

[mrv86 3,138]

6 minutes ago, phelps said:

wow! what a night it's been...

I didn't really expect a "remuntada" like that when we got 9-5 down against MEX...

I feel sorry for our friend mrv86...I guess it's been a real shock...

 

on the other pitches, we've seen quite a good number of exciting games, despite being so early in the season...

in particular, the game between Cuba and Japan was a high class effort from both sides (maybe not by the pitchers...)...and also earlier today CUB vs AUS was a thrilling one, with the highly favourite Caribbeans that almost went out in round #1, with AUS coming just short in their comeback...

waiting for the US debut later tonight, yesterday it was also an impressive start by the reigning champions, the Dominican Republic...it won't be easy to stop them also in this year's tournament...

 

Sure it was a shock result, but the credit goes to the Italian team who fought the entire game

 

Hope you can reach next round,

[Gianlu33 4,562]

1 minute ago, mrv86 said:

 

Sure it was a shock result, but the credit goes to the Italian team who fought the entire game

 

Hope you can reach next round,

Thanks a lot and mexican team do a great match too   I think that it's the most difficult and equilibrate group, I hope that maybe whit 2 win you will qualify at 2nd stage too.

[thepharoah 2,405]

the US team just avoided a major upset on their 1st game and defeated Colombia 3-2 after 10 innings , USA and DR are big favorites to qualify through group c as expected